Post Feed Heaving

I shot this video about an hour after feeding him today. Normally he runs into a hide and commences the food coma for a couple days. But he's just been laying on this hide/branch heaving like this for a good 30 min now. Any of you ever notice this before? He weighs 95g, and the mouse was a 12g Arctic Mouse that was completely thawed and warmed. His temps are 87 ambient hot side, 78 ambient cool side, and 90 UTH hot spot. Humidity 68%

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Nobody has seen this with their animals? He's still doing it this morning, and no chance of taking him to a vet until Monday.

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Sorry, I've never seen or heard of it. I hope everything works out.

What morph is he? Spider? The husbandry seems fine. I ask bc in spider gene animals "the wobble" can present in many ways and have a varying severity. The breathing pattern could possibly be part of that complex. I have seen heavy breathing in ball pythons after a meal (swallowing) but it is not repeatedly ongoing.

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Ok. Cool. Then the spider gene complex most likely isn't the case here. Just keep an eye on him. Was the meal larger than his normal meal?

No, I intentionally stayed clear of spiders for that reason. Kinda sucks because I think they're great looking animals...

This is his 3rd mouse between 10-12g. He had no issues with the other two. I will say he seemed really eager this time though. He's had a great feeding response every time I've fed him, but this time he was twice as violent as normal. He's been pooping every other feeding, but he pooped 3 times and dropped a urate between his last Fri feeding, and yesterday.

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No, I intentionally stayed clear of spiders for that reason. Kinda sucks because I think they're great looking animals...

This is his 3rd mouse between 10-12g. He had no issues with the other two. I will say he seemed really eager this time though. He's had a great feeding response every time I've fed him, but this time he was twice as violent as normal. He's been pooping every other feeding, but he pooped 3 times and dropped a urate between his last Fri feeding, and yesterday.

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Well , he is still young and expending a lot of energy during the "twice as violent" attack of the prey item could be the reason for the heavy breathing? Just keep an eye out for repeated episodes or additional presentations. Good luck.

anything changed in his enclosure or the room his tank is kept? heavy breathing is usually a sign is stress or exhaustion. is he hissing?

or did anything startle him? another forumer startled her BP while in a mating lock and he had a heart attack. could u see his belly scales? Check out the thread and vid here: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-bottom-scales

Nothing has changed in the last two weeks. The enclosure was moved Christmas Eve, but nothing in it changed (temps, lighting, etc..)

Its more than heavy breathing. He'll go into a hide, or try to coil up every once in a while, but will straiten back out due to whatever the discomfort is. He breaths normal for 30-45 sec, then has a large contraction/deep breath like the one seen in the vid. He ate around 3 Pac time yesterday, and is still having this issue at 10:40 this morn. I'll read the other post, and try to look at his scutes when I get home. I don't want to handle him right now, but I might be able to see them if he's still propped up on his driftwood.

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